Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science
Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School
Editors: Lohmann, G., Meggers, H., Unnithan, V., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Notholt, J., Bracher, A. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Shows the spectrum of Earth system science: remote sensing, data exploration, process understanding, modeling, and informatics
- Provides examples of how to link the different disciplines as a key concept of future PhD education in Earth system science
- Links ‘data and modeling’ to enable graduate students from a variety of disciplines to cooperate and exchange views on the common theme of global environmental change
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- About this book
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This book describes the latest advances at the Helmholtz “Earth System Science Research School” where scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, and the Jacobs University are involved in research.
One of the greatest challenges is understanding ongoing environmental changes. The longer the time scale the more components of the Earth system are involved, e.g. interannual and decadal variations are related to the coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system, whereas longer variations like glacial-interglacial or Cenozoic transitions involve the carbon cycle, ice sheets and gateways. In order to get deep insights into Earth system science, observations, remote sensing, past environmental data, as well as modeling need to be integrated. These different approaches are traditionally taught in separated disciplines at bachelor and master levels. It is, therefore, necessary to bring these disciplines together in PhD programs. - Reviews
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“The book is aimed at those graduate students who are interested in pursuing doctoral researches in earth science with an aim to deliver a simple perspective for complex interactions. … the entire book provides a unique, brief and relevant perspective on multiple aspects of earth science, which seems to be more suitable for advanced users, while may be of use for graduate education essentially supplementing with more physically based earth science text books.” (Tirthankar Banerjee and Manish Kumar, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 22, 2015)
- Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Earth System Science—Past Experiences and Future Trends
Pages 3-7
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The Educational Program of the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS)
Pages 9-17
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Time Evolution of a PhD Student’s Mood—A Review of My Time as PhD Student of the Research School ESSReS
Pages 19-23
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Progress in Earth System Science: What Does It Take to Make Our Ideas Clear?
Pages 25-35
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Towards a Better Tropospheric Ozone Data Product from SCIAMACHY: Improvements in High Latitude Stratospheric Ozone
Pages 39-48
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science
- Book Subtitle
- Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School
- Editors
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- Gerrit Lohmann
- Helge Meggers
- Vikram Unnithan
- Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
- Justus Notholt
- Astrid Bracher
- Series Title
- Springer Earth System Sciences
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-13865-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-13865-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-13864-0
- Series ISSN
- 2197-9596
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 251
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
- Topics